Not surprising that these grants now require working with ICE, given the purpose was federal & local law enforcement collaboration. Sanctuary policies are just a small barrier when you have a fusion center and participation in DHS and FBI task forces.

New requirements here

UASI already required a percent go to law enforcement & terrorism prevention as well as requiring funding a fusion center (BRIC). The point of BRIC & UASI is collaboration w/ DHS and FBI which we know led to at least one deportation. These new reqs just make the purpose clearer!

This should be a huge concern for all cities (Boston Brookline Cambridge Chelsea Everett Quincy Revere Somerville Winthrop) receiving UASI for emergency mgmt and policing & surveillance. Many of them buy shotspotter, cameras, and license plate readers w/ UASI.

DHS' UASI grant, which funds BRIC along w/ surveillance & emergency mgmt across 9 cities now requires 10% go to collaboration on border enforcement, like 287g agreements and detainer requests. Maybe now @MayorWu will listen to community demands to abolish BRIC and reject UASI!

This. Exactly. Keep fighting, everyone, we must keep going however impossibly.

NEW—"A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor just back from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: https://t.co/egBKc2F8ak

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU

Today:

Police in Haverhill MA kill man, video shows at least four officers restraining him https://t.co/lgV8bTACpc

The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s top consulting firms, played a key role in designing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. How did BCG end up helping build an aid network Palestinians and leading NGOs describe as a ‘death trap’—and why does their involvement matter?

IF PALESTINIANS UNDER CONSTANT BOMBING & SNIPER FIRE CAN DO THIS-- CONSIDER WHAT -WE WHO ARE NOT BEING BOMBED- ARE CALLED TO DO. 🪨🪨🪨🌱

SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay starting this week, with at least 9,000 people being vetted for transfer, according to documents obtained by POLITICO https://t.co/HNew23andw @nahaltoosi @MyahWard

CALL FOR TIPS Have information about Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)? We’re looking to hear from anyone — especially BCG employees — who can share insight. Your privacy will be protected. Reach out securely on Signal:

If you didn't know, here's the context for Megha Vemuri's speech. @MIT laboratories take MILLIONS of dollars from the IDF for projects with obvious military and surveillance applications. @MIT_CSAIL @MITLIDS and Biological Engineering especially. https://t.co/c10jZaY7D0

"(Feds) were present at arrest bookings, reviewed arrest reports, sifted through surveillance footage, were in the streets in plainclothes, flew surveillance aircraft, delivered weapons ordered by the SPD from Wyoming to Seattle, monitored social media and were sent to assist..."

BREAKING: The “nonprofit killer bill” is back from the dead and hitching a ride on the GOP tax package A clause that would give Trump’s Treasury broad powers to crush civil society groups is hunkered down on page 380 of a draft unveiled today

She's out!!!

Rümeysa is having an asthma attack right now during her bail hearing while an expert explains how this impacts her health. We need her out and back here now!!!!

My full firsthand account of the ICE kidnapping in Worcester this morning: